Outstanding Healthcare – A Regional Multiplier Affect

High-quality healthcare creates healthy communities, drives economic growth, invites innovation, and multiples everyone’s well-being. Award-winning hospital facilities staffed with top-notch caregivers providing programs that change life-outcomes, don’t spring up overnight. Building a hospital and attracting the best caregivers requires years of staying the course, enlisting community support and acquiring large amounts of capital.

The factors that create outstanding community hospitals also attract new businesses, investors, and entrepreneurs who want to become part of a community that can keep them healthy. The Palouse Knowledge Corridor is home to two such vibrant communities, two active research universities and several expanding businesses with a national reach (SEL, NRS, Terragraphics, Meter Group, College Hill Custom Threads, EMSI, etc.) and a local address.

How They Are Alike

Both hospitals offer a full suite of medical services, collaborate with each other, have awards for innovation, consistently “Most Wired”, are actively involved in their communities and can transport patients, by helicopter if needed, to advanced centers for cardiac, neuroscience, stroke, and cancer treatments in Spokane, WA and Coeur d’Alene, ID.

Each hospital has active patient-education programs, certified diabetes instructors and dietetics programs, host annual community events, and award scholarships. With two accredited research universities 8 miles apart attracting students, staff, and faculty nationally and internationally, both hospitals are geared toward continual modernization.

How They Are Unique

Pullman Regional Hospital

A new 10,000 square foot facility for same day services (Infusions, Transfusions, Endoscopy, Epidurals, Chronic Pain management, Pre-operative appointments, Observation status, Radiology procedures that require anesthesia) and outpatient cases is being built and projected to be finished in 2019.

“The expansion will allow us to meet a growing trend to provide outpatient services in healthcare,” said Jeannie Eylar, Chief Clinical Officer. “The additional space will increase efficiency, provide enhanced room layouts and patient experience to one of the busiest areas of the hospital.”

Blood flow Imaging During Surgery – our region’s first and most advanced fluorescence imaging system delivers real-time images of blood flow to tissues during surgery, which is especially useful during mastectomies, breast reconstruction, gastrointestinal and cardiothoracic surgery